Look Adobe (or any developer of image editing software for the mac): it doesn’t have to be this complicated. Trying to get CSS out of an image editor should be trivial. You know about a rectangle, its height, its width, how its being filled, if it has an outline, if it has transparency, if it has a border radius. You know this because I told you to make such a shape. I did it your way and you listened. Everything I ever wanted out of this rectangle, you’ve given me. Thanks.

But now that I or any of my designy colleagues have this thing looking pretty and signed off on, can you go ahead and give me all those rectangle’s qualities as CSS?

Hey, don’t get so worried! You don’t have to read my mind. I don’t expect that. Be as verbose as you want to. Even if I don’t need the width and height, give it to me anyway. It’ll take less time to delete your CSS output than code up fresh styles myself, especially if its a piece I didn’t design myself.

You already kind of have that, but your process doesn’t work for me. I don’t need ALL of the site, because you’re just not good enough to get it right. Don’t take that the wrong way. It’s just that this is a picture of a website, not the real thing that has unique intensions and offline conversations associated with it that you can’t possibly know about.

So please don’t do too much. Just give me a small export of the data you already know about with a simple click.

Thanks a bunch,

Eric